Ben Bernanke must have been busy.
Passing through Denver airport last Tuesday, the day after the book had been released, I found a large pile of autographed copies of Bernanke’s new book The Courage to Act. That was one bookshop in one city (not even one of the twenty largest in the US), and it had me wondering just how many days the former head of US central banking system had had to devote to autographs. I guess even eminent authors have to earn their – no doubt rather large – advances.
The stock of books on the post-2007 financial and economic crises continues to grow. And it is still early days. We can expect many more in coming decades – akin perhaps to the continuing flow of works on the Great Depression, and the unresolved controversies that still surround that episode.
Many of the key US participants have now published their…
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